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WIPO Creating New IP Rights Over Web Content
An anonymous reader writes "The WIPO is currently engaged in negotiating a new treaty on digital IP rights, but they're having trouble agreeing on the particulars. Though the world of YouTube and podcasts seems like a place that 'requires' laws, the WIPO seems confused about what to do about it. From the article: 'The proliferation of low cost video cameras and editing software, higher bandwidth cable, satellite and Internet connections, are creating a highly diverse and dynamic environment for creating, distributing, redistributing and remixing information. To this exciting world the UN's specialized agency for intellectual property wants to impose a new legal regime. The problem is, no one here has a clue what the legal regime should look like.' The U.S. is also pushing for reviving a 1962 treaty (never ratified) that would give the large cable distributors (like Discovery, Sci-fi, Spike, etc) ownership of even public domain content if they carry it. This would be in addition to any rights normally afforded the distributors. "
That's strange. I didn't detect any arrogance in that post. However, your arrogance is off the scale with comments like the above and these:
Hypocrite, IP "rights" are the only bogus assertion around here.then I would say tough shit, that's the punishment you get for imposing false property rights.
And the appropiate response would be. FU, pull your head out and use the God given brain you were given to take things to their "rational" conclusion.
Yeah, no arrogance there at all. You just believe that your position is the only valid one, and anybody who disagrees should fuck off.
... and then they built the supercollider.